Why did they curve their swords

Effective back scratchers

>>33438159
So they didn't get stuck as bad when slashing a dude from horseback.

>>33438159
Horses, and a different philosophy of use in general.

>>33438159
A curved blade is stronger than a strait blade.

Far more leverage and better for slashing on foot and significantly better on horseback against the type of armor that their enemies were using in the region.

>>33438159

Because the blade is always presenting a 'new' surface

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to match their curved penises

>>33438159
easier to perform a draw cut and indian/persian sword techniques heavily favoured draw cuts

>>33438159
so there's less surface area touching the target during the cut therefore applying more force per area

>>33438159
Its not even that its better on horseback, or that its easier to take off from armor if stuck, its actually because it gives you more chance to swing early and still hit.

That is because of the location of the blade as your arm moves when slashing from horse back.

Your swing just ends up having a larger window to achieve contact. And hitting someone from horse back is not as easy as it sounds.

Personally I have never been defeated by a curved sword

>>33438159
Cause it's a slashing sword. The straight sword's are for piercing/stabing. Different sword's are for different purposes

Because the penis also has a curvature

>>33440833
coincidentally, your mum has curvature as well.

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>>33438159
>Why did they curve their swords

Protects the head and the horse when blocking on a horse in defence causing the attack to slide away from the horse and head etc, longer cutting edge, stops the blade hitting the ground dismounted.

Something like a marmaluke sabre (pic) with the steep curve looks absurd until you realise the defensive positions in horseback sabre

>>33438159
Because redguards just do.

>>33439720
Incorrect. Straight, double-edged and single-edged swords can cut very well.

>>33441748
curved ones cut better though. it is possible to stab someone with a katana

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For the same reason that the guillotine blade was oblique : It enhances slicing while minimizing compression.

>>33438159
I heard something like that people carried swords that were curved similar to their dicks.

>>33438159
Curvature helps you while parrying.
Also works better while cutting since more force is applied to significantly smaller area.

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>>33441222
>marmaluke
I hate that comic.

>>33438159
Horseback, and only horseback.

Every advantage listed here is moot unless you're moving really fucking fast.

Straightswords have more flexible CQC usages, if you're actually trained in them.

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>>33442146
Light infantry and Artillery crews of the Napoleonic era carried heavily curved swords, although it may be because :
1- They weren't expected to be in melees.
2- Their most likely foe was cavalry, and cavalry goes fast as you say, so maybe the curve makes sense in such a case.

>>33442029
They didn't jack off back then so that wasn't an issue.

>>33441832
Then why not just hold the sword at an angle? Or make it have like a 30° angle somewhere along the blade?

>>33442449
It can be a strain on the wrist, it's just easier to make the blade in a certain way and hold the wrist correctly.
That's also why eastern and especially indian grips on swords tends to be very short, it's partly in order to encourage a good wrist position.

So why didn't yuros curve their swords?

Better slicer.
Horseback sword, youre swinging down at people, not trying to poke them with it.
Blade slides off while cutting, doesnt wedge into material, horse provides more than enough power to slash shit off

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>>33442901
whoever said we didnt?

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>>33442925
plenty of curved european swords

>>33442924
>Horseback sword, youre swinging down at people, not trying to poke them with it.
Loads and loads of horseback swords were made for thrusting though. Don't know if you implied that horseback swords should cut, but lots of people disagreed with that and for good reasons as the thrust is superior in the charge and for heavy cavalry.

>>33438159
I would say partially different armor types, as well as the far greater use of cavalry, different access to metals, and just cultural quirks.

Everywhere from Africa to Japan to the Middle East had almost exclusively curved swords (large knives don't count), they also tended to be of 2 main types, namely the Arabic type of curved, slender hacking blade, and the Oriental type of even thinner, straighter slicing blades.

Europeans began making swords in the bronze age, but they didn't have any semblance of fighting cavalry or anything other than foot soldiers and a few chariots. The eastern nations had swords probably before or at the same time as europeans, but they had perfected mounted combat far earlier than the west, and they tended to have less overall armour in the later years as it was too hot to get away with that much clothing.

>>33441812
Only if they have no armour or maybe shitty leather/fur armour, though. Katana's weren't the primary weapon of the Japanese anyway, pikes and bows were used by all soldiers and they didn't really use shields due to the culture. Katanas were side arms and couldn't be used against any metal armour in most cases unless you managed to stab in the gaps, even then katanas were kind of shit for that because they're like giant brittle knives more than swords.

>>33442398
They weren't facing armoured opponents like the people in the middle ages and earlier were, nobody wore chunks of metal on their body so a lightweight slashing sword was more practical and good enough for close quarter combat, which was mitigated by muskets and polearms.

>>33442901
Euros had plenty of curved swords.

- Messers
- Falchions
- Swiss Saber
- Light Cavalry and Infantry Sabers
- Cutlass
- Hangers
- Dussack

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>>33443979
>they're like giant brittle knives more than swords